Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearst hierarchy has a very clear notion of what Young Bill thinks about-except that it seems to match his father's thinking pretty well. (But the Old Man, at Bill's age, was a hell-for-leather radical, campaigning for cheap money, public power and Democrats...
...Martha Ellen Truman, the President's mother, reached 93 in Grandview, Mo., swore that she would reach 100. Son Harry surprised her with a spur-of-the-moment flight from Washington. "I had a notion to do this," he said...
...Girl from Nantucket (book by Paul Stanford & Harold Sherman; music by Jacques Belasco; lyrics by Kay Two-mey). Offering the season's most cranked-out tunes, most threadbare gags, most feeble-minded smut, and strangest notion of a ballet, The Girl from Nantucket rated -and got from Manhattan reviewers-the critical equivalent of a well-aimed flyswatter...
...million in cash. UNRRA had been the best customer, because UNRRA could draw against the $150 million contribution which the U.S. has made in surplus to UNRRA. But in a desperately needy world there were few other buyers. Why? Yankee Trader. Chief trouble had been FLC's notion that it should sell surpluses to foreign governments only for dollars. This policy flopped because foreign governments either 1) have no dollars at all, or 2) none to spare. Nor did the policy make sense to U.S. businessmen. For every dollar FLC drained off there would be one less dollar...
...Army team is a gang of super-dupermen who dwell high on the west banks of the Hudson, knock the sawdust out of tackling dummies all week, emerge from their caves on Saturday afternoon to scare women, children and mere mortal football foes. There is logic in the notion...